Articles dealing with late-presenting congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) in children published until 2003 were collectively reviewed. The main purpose of the presented study was to gain insight into the clinical spectrum of this variant of CDH and to discuss its clinical and surgical aspects. In...

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Last week, our president Dawn Ireland was the keynote speaker at Pediatrics 2018, a conference in Amsterdam that includes several pediatric specialties. She spoke on our 20-year retrospective of the CDH Natural History database.
Ms. Ireland also gave an impassioned 45 minute speech on the story...

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Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare developmental defect of the diaphragm, causing considerable morbidity and mortality1,2. Morphological changes are present from an early developmental stage, consisting of increased muscularization of the pulmonary vessels, rarefication of pulmonary arterioles and capillaries, and a decreased alveolar density3....

Last week, CDHi's president spent the week with the British Pediatric Surgical Association at their 2018 conference in Liverpool and was able to see several of our Medical Advisors, meet many new surgeons, and catch up on research coming out of the UK.
CDHi is very...

One of our wonderful CDH families recently held a fundraiser for us and was kind enough to share their story:
After being told that we were unable to conceive on our own, my husband and I were thrilled to prove the doctors wrong! We found out...